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Sojourner Truth was an African American women's rights activist. Read her famous speech, Ain't I a Woman, which she delivered without preparation in 1851.
Nov 17, 2017 · At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a Woman?”
Speech Transcript – Sojourner Truth. Full transcript of Sojourner Truth’s famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech from May 29, 1851. Sojourner Truth: ( 00:14) Well children …. Well there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter.
"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in the state of New York. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ – sometimes known as ‘Ar’n’t I a Woman?’ – is the title of a speech which Sojourner Truth, a freed African slave living in the United States, delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio.
AIN'T I A WOMAN? by Sojourner Truth. Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
May 4, 2021 · At the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention, on May 29, 1851, the formerly enslaved woman Sojourner Truth rises to speak and assert her right to equality as a woman, as well as a Black American.
